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I’m still trying to figure out if the news in the days preceding the release of Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 symbolizes irony or progress.
As the subtitle indicates, the book examines the first efforts by the U.S. and the Soviet Union to put humans into space. One of the […]
When I agree with both Oprah and the Pulitzer Prize Committee on a novel, you know it’s got to be good. Well, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road today won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Gee, I wonder where my picking it as one of my books of the year ranks with that and Oprah picking it […]
There is no other way to put it. I was totally and absolutely stunned to read this morning that Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday night. Given his age (84), it is not totally unexpected. Still, there is that feeling that a void has suddenly appeared in my literary soul.
It is somewhat embarrassing that I can’t […]
Iowa author and peace activist Mike Palecek will be appearing at Zandbroz Variety in downtown Sioux Falls the evening of Friday, April 6, as part of the tour for his new book, The American Dream. I have been horribly remiss in not mentioning this before since Mike was kind enough to give me a heads […]
We have strange attitudes toward mental illness. Psychological disorders aren’t so bad if they give us characters who entertain us on television (the obsessive compulsive title character in Monk), in movies (the multiple phobias and disorders in What About Bob?) or even in classic literary works (the depression of Winnie the Pooh‘s Eeyore and apparent […]
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